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Article: Miller's `Broken Glass' splinters into pieces
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 18, 1996
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Why does the Holocaust continue to haunt our consciousness? In
part because we ask ourselves how a country as civilized as Germany
could descend into genocide.
The more difficult question is what is there -- not in the German
character but in our collective soul -- that would allow such a
horror to happen. That's the heart of darkness that some of our best
and bravest artists have explored since the end of World War II.
Arthur Miller has been one of our best and bravest playwrights for
most of his 81 years, and in his 1994 play, "Broken Glass," which
comes to "Mobil Masterpiece Theatre" at 9 p.m. Sunday on Channel 2,
he continues to ask good, brave questions.
Some 60 years ago a woman ...